Keepcoach01 makes a good point, if the bracket was changed, a top tier team like Fort Mill would adjust. 4A teams would stop scheduling A and AA teams unless it were to sustain an instense inter-city rivalry, and I imagine the playoff picture would have started a tad different than this year, progressed only slightly differently, and ultimately, ended the same way. To which we can say, little would be changed but the process, with the end result in tact.
All a change to the system does in the end is create different criteria for seeding and making the playoffs. All teams would adjust and soon there would be complaints that "SCHOOL A" scheduled their games with a weak 4A school before "SCHOOL B" was able to, thus forcing "SCHOOL B" to pound a weak 3A school but receive less points. What a shame!
The system was flawed then, and lent more to coaches who were adept at selective scheduling, you could almost schedule your way into the playoffs. Whereas the current system allows some teams an inside track based on being in a Region that is not as strong from top to bottom.
Neither system is perfect. But they are different. And since we live in a world of 20 second attention spans, it only makes sense to change it back to the way it was, so that 5 years down the road, we can change it back to how it is now!
Of course, if the system were different, Westside girls would have made the playoffs, which has to make me think, hmmm.......